Dear sir, In this letter I shall further examine two clauses in the proposed constitution respecting appointments to office. By art. 2. sect. 2. the president shall nominate, and by

Dear sir, On carefully examining the parts of the proposed system, respecting the elections of senators, and especially of the representatives, they appear to me to be both ambiguous and

Dear sir, It is said that our people have a high sense of freedom, possess power, property, and the strong arm; meaning, I presume, that the body of the people

Dear sir, The advocates of the constitution say we must trust to the administration, and elect good men for representatives. I admit, that in forming the social compact, we can

Dear sir, Before I proceed to examine the objections, I beg leave to add a valuable idea respecting representation, to be collected from De Lo[l]me, and other able writers, which

Dear sir, My former letters to you, respecting the constitution proposed, were calculated merely to lead to a fuller investigation of the subject; having more extensively considered it, and the